In all likelihood, the Democrats will not hit 60 votes in the Senate (but come damn close, including possibly Liddy Dole’s seat). But if Sen. Obama wins, I don’t think they’ll really need to get all that way. Democrats will be at historical highs in the House and Senate, with a Democratic president. The country will have sent a serious message about a change in direction that is far stronger than the “capital” Bush spent in 2004-5. There will be enough Republican senators hanging on that they’ll know better than to stand in the way filibustering the agenda.
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Seriously, why would anyone take either of those “news” sources seriously?
>> That Zogby Poll
>> John Zogby
>> Drudge, Lowry revived falsehood that Obama didn’t vote to condemn MoveOn Petraeus ad
>> Drudge highlighted Financial Times quote echoing false rumor about Obama’s religion
But the Freepers and the gang at Hot Air are positively giddy. Coming down from a high really hurts. Three days to go. Expect lots of all-caps.
Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss, currently neck and neck for re-election says that blacks going to the poll will energize “our side” and that “the other folks” are voting.
This election could very well be GOP racism’s last stand.
CHAAAAAAARGE!
The republicans are quite upset that voting hours have been extended in North Carolina. Yet again, the right recoils from democracy.
This ludicrous bit is now floating around the con blogosphere and Free Republic:
Here is what he ["Carl from Ohio"] says the GOP internal state by state polling is showing for last night:
NJ M – 48, O – 43, U-7
MI M – 44, O- 42, U – 10
CA O – 44, M – 43, Barr – 3, U – 9
PA M – 55, O – 33, U – 10He says undecideds are breaking 4:1 for McCain.
If you believe this I have a giant bridge to sell you. LOL.
Just to give you an idea of where things stood and why conservatives are just making stuff up when they say Kerry lead Bush.
Likely voters surveyed in six major showdown states indicated that they are almost evenly split in their support for President Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry, according a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Sunday.
A separate Gallup poll of likely voters indicated a similar split nationwide, with 49 percent choosing Bush and 47 percent taking Kerry — a virtual tie given the margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. Independent candidate Ralph Nader had 1 percent.
Prop. 8 is just the latest stupid proposition up for a vote in California. It is by far the worst system in the country for deciding on important issues. I don’t understand why people in California put up with the proposition system, where the state legislature abdicates its responsibility and millions of dollars on both sides of an issue flood the state. It is ridiculous.
People forget that the GOP has recently held the advantage when it comes to get out the vote operations. The unprecedented GOTV for John Kerry in 2004 was beaten by one other… George W. Bush. Part of the reason Howard Dean became the DNC chairman was a commitment to a 50-state strategy predicated on maximizing GOTV. In theory, you would think McCain’s people would ratchet up the arms race. Instead, they’re putting more money into TV?
The vaunted, 72-hour plan that President Bush used to mobilize voters in 2000 and 2004 has been scaled back for McCain. He has spent half as much as Obama on staffing and has opened far fewer field offices. This week, a number of veteran GOP operatives who orchestrate door-to-door efforts to get voters to the polls were told they should not expect to receive plane tickets, rental cars or hotel rooms from the campaign.
‘The desire for parity on television comes at the expense of investment in paid boots on the ground,’ said one top Republican strategist who has been privy to McCain’s plans. ‘The folks who will oversee the volunteer operation have been told to get out into the field on their own nickel.’
Wowsers.
Offense baby. OFFENSE.
Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is taking the unprecedented step of launching its first advertising in rival John McCain’s home state of Arizona.
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe announced the advertising buy this morning, saying the campaign also would relaunch advertising in Georgia, where it hasn’t advertised in several months, and start advertising in North Dakota.
These are the two ads they’ll be running:
National party, localized.
An email sent by Hillsborough County Republican Party chairman David Storck has some local party supporters claiming it’s racist.
The email, written by a volunteer at the party’s Temple Terrace office, was forwarded by Storck to hundreds of party members. It says, in part, “I see carloads of black Obama supporters coming from the inner city to cast their votes for Obama. This is their chance to get a black president and they seem to care little that he is at minimum, socialist, and probably Marxist in his core beliefs. After all, he is black–no experience or accomplishments–but he is black.”
If we want America to be great again, to be one step closer to the ideals as detailed in the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, we must elect Barack Obama as our 44th president.
Leadership
The most important reason to elect Obama is the gaping void of leadership in our country. We need a steady had to right our ship of state, but we also need someone with knowledge. Anti-intellecutalism has run rampant in the Bush years and it has been a disaster from coast to coast. And without Sen. Obama, it would get worse. When he ran for the presidency the first time, at least George W. Bush had the decency to divide the country after he was sworn in. At the same time when Sen. Obama has been discussing the vital need for our nation to bridge the divide between left and right, the McCain/Palin ticket has run one of the most divisive campaigns in U.S. history. Not satisfied with slicing and dicing the country based on ideology, their campaign has chosen to ride a wave of racial hatred. Each of their rallies since the convention having far more in common with Klan or Nuremberg rallies than a traditional American campaign stop. Palin wasn’t kidding when she said she believed in a “real” America. For her, real America is white, Christian, and rural. For McCain/Palin, their America simply doesn’t include a black man on the east coast like myself. That is a fundamentally anti-American position to hold and it must be defeated.
Economics
Trickle down has failed. Deregulation has failed. America faces a recession caused in part by conservative ideology run wild. Any shopkeeper can tell you somebody must mind the store, or else it will be looted. Wall Street looted America and now is being rewarded. Even worse, McCain wants to cut their taxes – again – and the end result will be what it always is: The market conspires to screw the consumers, and often their own employees. Conservative economics is FAIL. Barack Obama believes that the party is over for big business, while at the same time giving a tax break to the vast majority of Americans. Even Democratic politicians have not been doing that often enough for the last 15 years or so.
Foreign Policy
“Bomb, bomb Iran” isn’t a joke. It’s a promise from John McCain. More Americans have been killed by international terrorism under this Republican president. Americans have died in a war for no cause under this Republican president. And based on his own simple misunderstanding of the world and the bloodthirsty people he surrounds himself with as “advisers”, John McCain would make Bush seem almost as sane as his father was. Barack Obama had the good sense to be against the war when even way too many Democrats didn’t. His foreign policy returns to the tradition of common sense and realism. We will fight the enemies who need fighting and not engage in dumb wars.
Social Issues
The Supreme Court is already conservative enough. Chief Justice Roberts is very young. We can’t allow the court to become even more of a playground for the b.s. conservative legal theories espoused by Dick Cheney & Co. A woman’s right to choose, discrimination laws, property rights, gun rights, labor rights, etc. all stand in the balance. We need Barack Obama making those choices, not people who have been dipped in the waters of conservatism like John McCain and Sarah Palin.
Science
Remember when the president of the United States believed that 1+1=2? Barack Obama does. John McCain is so indebted to the loony right of his party, who knows what sort of crackpots he would infest our government with? The Bush administration saw our national parks and saw oil wells. And McCain would be worse. It isn’t a coincidence that 76 Nobel Prize winners in Science support Obama.
In the past, America has been blessed with making the right presidential choices at the right time. Washington at the founding. Lincoln for the Civil War. FDR for the Depression and WWII. And even Ike for the Cold War. America is on the verge again. This country deserves greatness, and nothing less.
Please elect Barack Obama as our next president.
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John McCain seeks to duplicate the chaos of his election effort with his “transition” team.
Let’s see to it that this mess remains a theory.
In the heat of this election’s back and forth, a lot of nutty stuff comes over the transom. There is credible stuff, and stuff that simply isn’t credible. Any blogger with more than one visitor gets this stuff and its up to he or she to choose whether to go with it. That’s why it’s pretty insane that a veteran blogger like Kevin Aylward of Wizbang (the site frequent commenter JayTea writes for), links seriously to a “report” like this. What does it say?
The blog, Hillbuzz, has a comment from an Obama insider that weaves a conspiracy about how Obama has hired people to skew polls and watch blogs and flood them with pro-Obama comments.
Now, everything here is false. Clearly. This is the same blog, after all, that posted phony stories about the campaign “hiring” 400 bloggers and aided Larry Johnson in pushing the made-up “rant” tape.
In other words, a source far less credible than the recent report that aliens are now supporting McCain. And yet, Aylward links to this and says “Given the fact that Obama is flush with cash I have no problem believing that they’re pay people to make him look inevitable.”
Four to eight years of this? Wow.
UPDATE: Oh, look, Rush Limbaugh is pushing this too. Perhaps Rush can tell Kevin about how Hillary Clinton killed a guy once, and other myths of the right.
Most days I go to Subway near my office and pick up a sub. Whether meatball or ham, I always get Swiss cheese – my favorite cheese – to go with it. All of a sudden they stopped stocking swiss. So I went to another Subway, assuming this was localized to just the one store. Turns out Subway has stopped stocking Swiss cheese, period.
What the hell?
Has anyone heard about this? Outrage! I’ll be taking my business to Quizno’s.
UPDATE: So I contacted the Subway people and they responded this way:
In order to consistently provide satisfaction to our customers by offering high quality food with exceptional service that is a good value, we must continuously review our menu and the ingredients that we use.
Occasionally, we find that some items are not popular, some have declined in overall popularity, some are in short supply or are difficult to work with. In order for us to make room on our menu and in our restaurants for new and exciting foods, we must sometimes choose to not offer or discontinue items from the national menu. Some locations may continue to offer discontinued items as a local item.
We understand that this sometimes makes a customer’s favorite food
unavailable. Please be assured that there are still many other great tasting items at your local SUBWAYR restaurant. Perhaps one of them may be your new favorite.I apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate you taking the time to
contact us. SUBWAYR looks forward to your continued visits.
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